'Hypocrite' definitions:
Definition of 'hypocrite'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives [syn: hypocrite, dissembler, dissimulator, phony, phoney, pretender]
Definition of 'Hypocrite'
From: GCIDE
- Hypocrite \Hyp"o*crite\, n. [F., fr. L. hypocrita, Gr. ? one who plays a part on the stage, a dissembler, feigner. See Hypocrisy.] One who plays a part; especially, one who, for the purpose of winning approbation of favor, puts on a fair outside seeming; one who feigns to be other and better than he is; a false pretender to virtue or piety; one who simulates virtue or piety. [1913 Webster]
- The hypocrite's hope shall perish. --Job viii. 13. [1913 Webster]
- I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but prays from his heart. --Shak.
- Syn: Deceiver; pretender; cheat. See Dissembler. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'hypocrite'
From: Easton
- Hypocrite one who puts on a mask and feigns himself to be what he is not; a dissembler in religion. Our Lord severely rebuked the scribes and Pharisees for their hypocrisy (Matt. 6:2, 5, 16). "The hypocrite's hope shall perish" (Job 8:13). The Hebrew word here rendered "hypocrite" rather means the "godless" or "profane," as it is rendered in Jer. 23:11, i.e., polluted with crimes.
Synonyms of 'hypocrite'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- actor,
- affecter,
- ape,
- attitudinizer,
- bluffer,
- canter,
- canting hypocrite,
- charlatan,
- con man,
- confidence man,
- conformist,
- copier,
- copycat,
- copyist,
- counterfeiter,
- cuckoo,
- deceiver,
- dissembler,
- dissimulator,
- double-dealer,
- echo,
- echoer,
- echoist,
- fair-weather friend,
- faker,
- false friend,
- flimflam man,
- flimflammer,
- forger,
- formalist,
- fraud,
- Holy Willie,
- humbug,
- imitator,
- impersonator,
- imposter,
- impostor,
- Joseph Surface,
- liar,
- lip server,
- lip worshiper,
- masquerader,
- Mawworm,
- mealymouth,
- mime,
- mimer,
- mimic,
- mimicker,
- mocker,
- mockingbird,
- monkey,
- mountebank,
- parrot,
- Pecksniff,
- pharisee,
- Pharisee,
- phony,
- pietist,
- pious fraud,
- plagiarist,
- poll-parrot,
- polly,
- polly-parrot,
- poser,
- poseur,
- pretender,
- quack,
- ranter,
- religionist,
- religious hypocrite,
- sanctimonious fraud,
- sham,
- sheep,
- simulator,
- sniveler,
- snuffler,
- spiritual humbug,
- summer soldier,
- Tartuffe,
- whited sepulcher